Month: September 2016

I have been blessed many times over in my life, not least by my wife and children, and grandchildren, and most recently by being privileged to spend a day or so in what I consider to be one of the most beauty-wondrous places on Earth. So magical that I am tempted not to spell out … Continue reading Dodra and Kwar

‘Never let the man who says it can’t be done get in the way of the man doing it’ is, I believe, a Chinese proverb, no doubt shorter in the original. After weeks of scorn, ridicule, derision and general negativity of the ‘it can’t be done’ variety, we are now onto our third batch of … Continue reading Grit

Pi r squared is one of the very few scientific things that has stuck with me since my days at one of the last surviving grammar schools in Britain (soon to be joined by a few more, should the UK’s unelected leader get her way and bring back separating children into successes and failures at … Continue reading Pi r squared

Our current workawayers could hardly be more different, yet they have a couple of things in common. Ryota was a student of ours in Japan; I think I taught him ‘Speaking’ while my wife taught him ‘Reading’, in the next classroom. Someone else was in charge of ‘Listening’ and a fourth was responsible for improving … Continue reading One Thing Leads to Another